DAY 1 in AMERICA: Eight candles for eight days, and 8 books. But light the candles, not the books. For day 1, a joyous book of modern day Maccabees. Well, maybe they weren’t Maccabees, but they...
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Another Hanukkah Video…
Bravo to former Jewish camp song-leader gadol, and nice Jewish girl gone bad, Michelle Citrin, who helped prepare this international Pass the Candle video project. Sigh. I wish I knew about it...
Forget About Lost Funds, How Do I get My Livni Boy T Shirt?
So many losses of endowments of Jewish philanthropies. Travel Agents killed en route to Eilat because a idiot bus driver was filled with macho road rage. Netanyahu has an Obama like webpage. Shas is...
YU B-School Chairman Accused of Investment Fraud
2008 has not been a good year for the perception of some prominent Jewish businesspeople. First there was Virginia Beach, and then Iowa. And now, this morning’s papers have news of a new...
… And These Are the Bad Old Days
Hate to interrupt Shabbat for this post, but it is the latest tempest in a teapot, or fury in a felafel. The Guardian British newspaper reports that one of Oxford’s rugby squads had a party at...
Quick Anan, Get Your Resume to Rahm and Barack
Okay. let me get this straight… if Barack in Hebrew means lightning, and Rahm (as in the Chief of Staff in waiting, Congressman Rahm Emanuel) means thunder, must the newly elected...
78% of American Jewish Vote Goes To Obama-Biden
It was estimated that 80% of the Jewish vote went for the Democratic candidate in 2000, and 75% went Democratic in 2004. While an early American Jewish Committee poll of Jewish voters showed 57% of...
Jesse Undermines All The Work of the Big Schlep with one Sentence
Seventy years ago, in Evian France, the Allied countries decided that they could not take in any refugees (Jews) from Austria and Germany. Today, Jesse Jackson came to Evian to do his best to...